# Botticelli - October 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 5, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411 "2013-10-05T01:50:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/641 "2013-11-16T01:05:21Z")
Aha! IQ1: Were you a 16th-century Spanish missionary? IQ2: Did you write the _Anabasis_? IQ3: Were you a Warrior Princess? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/642 "2013-11-16T01:48:06Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Wait, I thought of a couple: > > IQ1: Are you a student at Sunnydale High? > IQ2: Are you the bandleader who popularized Latin music in the US? I am not Xander Harris. I am not Xavier Cugat. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/643 "2013-11-16T01:49:25Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Well, Spoons just used the one I was going to use (his #2)… > > IQ1: Um… > IQ2: Er… > IQ3: Ah… I’ll just X these out, shall I? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/644 "2013-11-16T01:50:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Aha! > > IQ1: Were you a 16th-century Spanish missionary? > IQ2: Did you write the _Anabasis_? > IQ3: Were you a Warrior Princess? I’m not Francis Xavier, Xenophon, nor Xena. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/645 "2013-11-16T01:51:51Z")
DQ: 1. Real Well, probably real. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/646 "2013-11-16T05:09:01Z")
Nicely done, **Prof. P.** , and thanks for proceeding directly to X! Previous IQs: Did you play the President’s national security advisor in an Eighties movie? - Yakov Smirnoff in _Buckaroo Banzai_. Were you a jazz musician admired by Clint Eastwood? - Charles “Yardbird” Parker. Were you a very unpleasant alien from H.P. Lovecraft’s stories? - Yog-Sothoth (sp?). X marks the spot… but all the good X questions have already been asked! IQs: Did you complain about when Black History Month is? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/647 "2013-11-16T10:13:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Xander Harris. > I am not Xavier Cugat. Correct on both. Hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/648 "2013-11-16T10:17:06Z")
Ah! A throwback to my college days, when I should have been in lectures instead of the arcade: IQ1: Are you a character featured on a Bally pinball machine? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/649 "2013-11-16T13:12:32Z")
Two more IQs: Were you a very atypical Vulcan? Did you publish a crank newspaper and wear an interesting medallion? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/650 "2013-11-16T14:08:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you complain about when Black History Month is? Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/651 "2013-11-16T14:09:40Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Ah! A throwback to my college days, when I should have been in lectures instead of the arcade: > > IQ1: Are you a character featured on a Bally pinball machine? Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/652 "2013-11-16T14:12:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Two more IQs: > > Were you a very atypical Vulcan? > Did you publish a crank newspaper and wear an interesting medallion? and two more DQs for you. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/653 "2013-11-16T22:49:59Z")
Previous IQs: Did you complain about when Black History Month is? - Nat X (Chris Rock) on SNL, a black radical with a 'fro that just wouldn’t quit: [http://members.tripod.com/~Reco\_Williams/natx.jpg](http://members.tripod.com/~Reco_Williams/natx.jpg). He complained that “The Man” made February Black History Month because it’s the shortest and coldest month. Were you a very atypical Vulcan? - Xon, a Vulcan who wanted to get more in touch with his emotions, in the never-made _Star Trek_ TV sequel _Star Trek: Phase II_. Did you publish a crank newspaper and wear an interesting medallion? - Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna’s dad, in the _Harry Potter_ books. DQs: Male? Now alive? First name start with X? Wracking my brains to think of any Xs other than those already asked about… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/654 "2013-11-16T23:38:01Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Ah! A throwback to my college days, when I should have been in lectures instead of the arcade: > > IQ1: Are you a character featured on a Bally pinball machine? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ. The character, and the machine, were named Xenon. DQ: Are you best known for your work in the arts? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/655 "2013-11-17T02:43:36Z")
DQs: 1. Female 2. Dead 3. Only name starts with X 4. Not known for her work in the arts. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/656 "2013-11-17T04:25:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQ: > > 1. Real > > Well, probably real. You had this DQ answer earlier, too. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/657 "2013-11-17T14:58:10Z")
DQs: 1. Female 2. Dead 3. Only name starts with X 4. Not known for her work in the arts. 5. Real …and now we know why nobody picks X… ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/658 "2013-11-17T16:48:35Z")
IQ: Did your husband die of hemlock poisoning? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/659 "2013-11-17T17:19:26Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Did your husband die of hemlock poisoning? Yes! Once again SCAdian has come through! Well done, again! I am [Xanthippe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthippe). I’m sure you all remember Petruchio’s speech in _The Taming of the Shrew_ PETRUCHIO. ``` Signior Hortensio, 'twixt such friends as we Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife, As wealth is burden of my wooing dance, Be she as foul as was Florentius' love, As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd As Socrates' **Xanthippe** or a worse, She moves me not, or not removes, at least, Affection's edge in me, were she as rough As are the swelling Adriatic seas: I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua. ``` ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/660 "2013-11-17T21:36:29Z")
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